28 Days Later

28 Days Later

2002

This horror flick follows the story of a young man who wakes up from a coma to discover a deadly virus has ravaged the country.

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Director

  • Danny Boyle

Cast

  • Christopher Eccleston
  • Brendan Gleeson
  • Naomie Harris
  • Cillian Murphy

Filming Locations

  • London Docklands

    Jim and his companions flee through the deserted Canary Wharf Underground station, running down its vast steel escalators, then travel along the empty Docklands Light Railway via South Quay station.

  • Piccadilly Circus

    Jim walks through a deserted Piccadilly Circus, where missing-person notices are posted on the barriers around the boarded-up Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain - one of the film's iconic post-apocalyptic images.

  • Redmire

    Riverside landscape scenes by the River Ure.

  • St. Anne's Church

    This is where Jim's first encounter with the dead and undead takes place.

  • The Lake District

    The film's ending was shot at Ennerdale Water in the Lake District, where Jim, Selena and Hannah take refuge in a remote cottage and unfurl a banner to attract a passing jet aircraft.

  • Three Mills Studios

    Three Mills Studios in East London served as a production base for the film.

  • Trafalgar Park

    Trafalgar Park near Salisbury, Wiltshire served as the army headquarters where Major Henry West's soldiers bring the survivors, with many interior rooms filmed with minimal set dressing.